The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-16

GREIL Bros grocery and other build
ings In Montgomery, Ala, were destroyed
by fre ON the morning Of the 9TH. Loss.
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BIZ the explosion of boiler at Hagans
willie. Ga, the other day, three negroes
were killed.
Tue race horse Glenmore died recently
OF pneumonia at the Glengar stud farm,
Baltimore County, Nd. tho home Of Will
liam Jennings. the owner.
CAPTAIN vAxNAMAN, of the coasting
schooner Nellie J. Terrell, who recently
arrived at Lewes, Del, reports that the
Terrell was struck by the steamer Alg:ers
from New York for Galveston and sunk
Immediately and the steward and two men
were lost.
FIVE damage suits sggregating $4,000
have been begun against the Natchez
(Miss.) Cotton Mills Company by relatives
Of those killed in the explosion last May.
GENERAL.
THREE children Of steerage passenger
on the steamer Asia, which arrived at Hall
fax, N. g., recently from Liverpool, died at
sea of diphtheria.
at Rome on the 9Th on the occasion Of the
Pope's jubilee.
The passenger steamer C. H. Merritt,
plying between Chatham, Ont, and Detroit
was burned the other morning She was
valued ut $4,000, and was insured for
5000.
The Chinese Ambassador. Hung Suen,
arrived recently at Berlin. He was accom-
v,on;o<N l,v,o
MosT Rev. JOuN POWER, Catholic Bishop
of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, is
dead.
JOHN GREEN & Co.. wholesale dry goods
merchants of London, Ont, have failed
with 700 liabilities. The cause was the
suspension Of the Bank of London.
RUSSIAN troops were reported cOncen.
trating on the Austrian frontier on the 9Th
and it was believed that war was inevita-
BILE. Considerable excitement existed in
clded fall.
GERMANY, Austria and Italy have agreed
to raise the Ministers at Madrid to the rank
of Ambassadors, and England is expected
to follow. This is a step toward the recog-
milton of Spain as great power.
EUROPEAN financiers did not attach any
lions of trouble because of the cOncentra-
ton of Russian troops in Poland, and there
were free purchases at the reductions.
TELEGRAMs from Accra, Western Africa,
under date of December /. says that King
by the British Consul for interfering with
traders, has heen sent into exile.
THE Royal Mail Steamship lines steamer
II ,zrA 7 -
ember % for Manila and Singapore, was
reported ashore nine miles north of Sagres.
Portugal. Seven of her crew were drowned.
She was vessel Of 800 tons.
In an interview at Paris the day follow.
ing the publication of the Presidents mes.
sage, Hon. James G. Blaine expressed him.
self as opposed to the views therein enun-
ciated, preferring to see the abolition OF
tobacco duties to any interference with the
tariff.
GOLD in pay ing quantities is said to have
been discovered near Dolgelly, Wales.
PAUL DE LA RoULpE has resigned the
presidency Of the French Patriotic League
because Of disagreement with the execu-
tive committee over his action in the Grevy
crisis.
The British steamer Lorne has been
wrecked in Chinese waters. Sixty-nine of
the people on board were saved, the fate
of the remainder being unknown.
HARRINGTON, the Irish Nationalist, was
found guilty at Tralee on the Sth under the
Crimes act and was sentenced to one
months imprisonment for publishing re-
ports of League meetings.
THE British bark Embleton, at Queens
town from San Francisco, reports that on
the voyage one seaman committed suicide,
another was drowned and a third fell and
broke one leg and one arm.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
seven days ended December s numbered
for the United States, 226; Canada, 81:
total, 2j4, compared with pa the previous
week and 214 the corresponding week Of
last year.
The uients of the Moscow University
recently attacked the Government inspect
or and hlssed the rector Of the institution.
A detachment of Cossacks were sum-
moned, who Quelled the riot and arrested
hundreds of students.
IT is reported that Prince Chung, father
of the Emperor of China, is dead.
IT is stated. on what is said to be reliable
authority that the doctors attending the
German Crown Prince have not changed
their opinions as regards his case and that
the optimist views recently taken are base
less.
NJ. GOBLET informed President Carnot on
the 9th that he was unable to form Minis.
try, whereupon NJ. Fallieres was implore0
to again undertake the tssk and he ac-
cepted.
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